Zayl Kraer

Name: Zayl Kraer
Gender: Male
Age: 27
Species: Human
Homeworld: Chandrila
Affiliation: SpecForce Infiltrators
Personality
---Traits: Quiet, calm, and patient which could be the product of his previous occupation. Also prefers a “lone wolf” sort of mindset but he has no problem with socializing with others and helping them out with one of their own problems that may be plaguing them.
---Likes: Reading, slugthrowers, the quiet, target practice, the outdoors.
---Dislikes: The usual kind of things that first got him into service; the evils that an individual or a race – whether human or Vong or other – can do to another such as torture, genocide, and other injustices.
---Habits: He likes to play with his knife, whether to just take it out of its sheath and fiddle with it or run a cleaning cloth over it even if it isn’t necessary.
Appearance
---Skin Color: Tan
---Hair Color: Black with silver streaks that had been dyed into it.
---Eye Color: Gray
---Clothing: When off-duty he tends to not care about his appearance, throwing on a tunic, pants, some boots, and being settled with that. When duty calls, he wears a uniform similar to his time as an Infiltrator; black bodysuit, tactical vest, combat boots, belt, and gloves.
---Other Attributes: His right leg has multiple scarring due to bacta treatment having come too late and a refusal of having them removed. The two, more prominent, scars are the ones on the lower portion of his leg with one running diagonally across the front and another going all the way up from his ankle to kneecap on the side. The kneecap itself has its own small cluster of scars, hinting to a shattered kneecap where the bones managed to burst through the skin.
Weapons: A vibroknife that is usually sheathed at his side, a SG-4 blaster rifle that can be found in an oversized leg holster, and a Tusken Cycler Rifle that he had managed to acquire during a mission on Tatooine that he had modified with a few upgrades – such as a scope, improved firing chamber, strengthened barrel, and flash suppressor – to turn it into a full-fledged sniper rifle.
Starship
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The Force
---Sensitivity: Weak
---Religion: Not a very religious person, but he tends to curse with the Corellian hells; something he picked up from a Corellian comrade.
---Lightsaber
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---Force Abilities: His sensitivity to the Force, while weak, has given him a Force Sense that allows him easier detection of individuals whether enemies or friends when putting his sniper rifle to work.
---Force Weakness: Everything else
---Other Force Object(s): None
Biography
---Personal History: Having been born on Chandrila, Zayl was born in a place that suffered relatively little compared to the rest of the galaxy. Ever since Operation Shadow Hand that had been led by the Reborn Emperor, Chandrila had never once been invaded or attacked again. Even during the Yuuzhan Vong War the planet had been ignored by the alien invaders due to its lack of military value. However, it was used as a haven for thousands of refugees from several New Republic worlds that hadn’t been so lucky.

It was the suffering that had taken place during the Vong War and the threat of galaxy-wide genocide that had convinced Zayl to leave the protection of his homeworld and dive headfirst into the bloody conflict by signing up for the New Republic military. Proving to be an excellent marksman in basic training, Zayl was trained to become a sniper due to his high scores. Unfortunately, no matter how well of a marksman he was, he couldn’t single-handedly stop the tragedies that occurred on countless worlds or the breakdown of the New Republic government. More often than not he would find himself on a shuttle that would take him away from one doomed world and bring him to the next. Alas, as history would record, even Coruscant couldn’t stand up to the invaders as it finally fell and, with it, the last shred of what had once been a diseased and rotted New Republic.

Fortunately, despite the dire straits, what remained of the New Republic came together and reformed into the new Galactic Alliance that proved to be much more suited to combat the Yuuzhan Vong. And while the government met some reformations, so too did the military as Zayl found himself being one of the several candidates that had been chosen to help revive the SpecForce 5th Regiment, the Infiltrators. Having been dissolved after the Battle of Endor, the usefulness of Infiltrators soon came back with the Yuuzhan Vong having become stretched thin due to their conquests. Drifting behind enemy lines, Zayl and his fellow Infiltrators sabotaged and destroyed Yuuzhan Vong supply lines and installations, incited prisoners to revolt, anything and everything to disrupt the Yuuzhan Vong war machine.

It paid off. In the end, the Yuuzhan Vong found themselves beaten back by the Galactic Alliance and its allies such as the Imperial Remnant before finally surrendering after liberating Coruscant. But despite the war being over, there were still pockets of resistance – whether Vong or Peace Brigade – that needed to be put down that Zayl was involved in. He only continued that work for two more years before the Galactic Alliance shifted its attention more into reconstruction. With the battles having finally been put to rest and there no longer being any need for people like him, Zayl had left SpecForce and the Alliance military in order to find another purpose to continue his peacekeeping goals.

---Military History: Starting out as a sniper for the New Republic near the beginning of the Yuuzhan Vong War, Zayl was later selected to help revive the Infiltrators of the SpecForce 5th Regiment. Here he and his comrades had attacked Yuuzhan Vong and Peace Brigade installations and supply depots to give the reformed Galactic Alliance time to prepare and counterattack. While an accomplished sniper, Zayl was given some limited training in the use of explosives and demolitions.

After the Yuuzhan Vong War, Zayl continued to put his expertise to good use. While there were some Yuuzhan Vong that still fought despite the order of recall from Warmaster Nas Choka, Zayl found himself performing operations against the Peace Brigade, a few of the bitter survivors having resorted to terrorism and trafficking Yuuzhan Vong weaponry that were now deemed as outlawed. For his last assignment, Zayl had hunted down and assassinated an infamous trafficker known as Snyder Judd before he left the Alliance military.
---Traumatic Experiences: There was a reason why his last assignment was indeed the last one. Upon Alliance Intelligence discovering a deal that was going down between Snyder and his buyers for some outlawed Yuuzhan Vong tech upon the former headquarters of the Peace Brigade, Ylesia, it was considered the perfect opportunity to assassinate him. Having been promoted to Lieutenant during that time, Zayl was under the command of Captain Ralli when the two of them were chosen to assassinate the dealer. With Zayl being the designated sniper, the two had infiltrated the site, setup position, and Zayl took the shot that ended Snyder’s life.

But while the assassination had gone perfectly, it was getting out that trouble appeared. With their position compromised, they immediately made a break for the designated LZ for evac where a shuttle would await them. Unfortunately, an armed airspeeder gave chase, leading to Zayl and Ralli to take out the pilot with combined sniper fire during their retreat. Out of control, the speeder plummeted towards them and Zayl was unlucky enough to have his right leg mangled upon the crash, causing Ralli to carry him and effectively slowing them down despite Zayl’s insistence to be left behind. That was enough for the rest of Snyder’s allies to catch up and, upon reaching the shuttle, Ralli was killed while Zayl was shuttled to safety with the guilt to forever be stuck to his conscious.